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Ready to rave at Coachella — so long as there's shade and A/C
Sometimes even the most devoted ravers outgrow their fairy wings and neon bikinis. The 160,000 people expected to attend Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival over the next two weekends will find a new electronic music tent with the kind of...
Tags: Electronics, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, AEG, Entertainment Events, Music
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Libya to help ease Egypt crisis with $1.2 bln oil deal
Reuters* Interest free credit oil deal to last a year * Aid will help Egypt avoid further shortages and unrest * Foreign oil firms cut Egypt supplies over credit worries * Tripoli seeking extradition of Gaddafi cousin from Egypt By Jessica Donati and...Tags: International Law, Egypt, Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz al Saud, Mohamed Morsi, Libya
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Jews revive annual pilgrimage to Africa's oldest synagogue
ReutersBy Tarek Amara DJERBA, Tunisia, April 27 (Reuters) - Africa's oldest synagogue is playing host to that rarity in the Arab world - a religious gathering of hundreds of Jews drawn from Europe and Israel. Guarded by armed Tunisian police, Jewish...Tags: Religion and Belief, Islam, Zine el Abidine ben Ali, Judaism, Tunisia
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UN council extends contentious W.Sahara peacekeeping mission
ReutersUNITED NATIONS, April 25 (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council renewed a peacekeeping mission in disputed Western Sahara on Thursday after the United States backed down in an annual battle with Morocco, backed by France, over whether peacekeepers should...Tags: Civil Rights, Morocco, Human Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, United Nations
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Occidental Petroleum says first-quarter profit fell 13%
Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum, one of the largest crude oil producers in the country, said its first-quarter profit fell but beat expectations as the company tried to cut costs and manage lower prices for natural gas. The earnings report...
Tags: Occidental Petroleum Corp., Corporate Officers, Stephen I. Chazen, Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance
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Future of historical site still in question
The fate of the historic Wintersburg site remains unclear after a vote by the Huntington Beach Planning Commission to do further studies into a request to change the property's zoning. Wintersburg was the site of a Japanese American community that began...
Tags: Human Interest, Arts and Culture
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Embassy attack spreads Libyan instability to capital
ReutersBy Marie-Louise Gumuchian and Ghaith Shennib TRIPOLI, April 24 (Reuters) - Libya's central government has long had only a tenuous grip on the eastern city of Benghazi, but the bombing of the French embassy in Tripoli shows its control of the capital...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Emergency Incidents, American Red Cross, France, White House
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Business events this week
This week Today Lunch & Learn - Poised to Impress, noon, Pompano Beach CRA Business Resource Center, 50 NE First Street, Pompano Beach. Presented by: Elaine M. Simmons, Exclusive Corporate Image, LLC. $15 incudes lunch. 954-586-1132 Build Your Total...Tags: Davie, Business, Rentals, Nova Southeastern University, Microsoft Corporation
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In Mali, scribe keeps an ancient calling alive
BAMAKO, Mali — Homemade twig pens stand like off-duty soldiers in a jar on Boubacar Sadeck's worktable. The morning sun steals into a room stuffed with a jumble of papers, ink bottles and stretched animal hides. He sits thoughtfully before a blank...
Tags: Science and Technology, Religion and Belief, Islam, Mali, Germany
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Compromise seen close on W.Sahara allowing UN mission extension
Reuters* Diplomats say U.S. rights observer demands dropped * Could pave way for UN Western Sahara mission extension * Polisario warns of risk of conflict following vote PARIS, April 23 (Reuters) - Diplomats said on Tuesday the United States had dropped...Tags: Morocco, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Paris (France), France
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Mexico political row hits banking plan, raises doubt on reforms
ReutersMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has suspended plans to present a new banking sector reform due to a political dispute between the main parties, raising doubts about a wider reform agenda that investors are watching closely....Tags: U.S. Congress, Carlos Slim, Elections, Mexico, Economy, Business and Finance
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Car bomb explodes at French Embassy in Libya
CAIRO -- A car bomb exploded at the French Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, on Tuesday, injuring three people and raising the specter that Islamist militants were seeking retribution for France’s military strikes against extremists in the West African...
Tags: Francois Hollande, Fishing, Al-Qaeda, Emergency Incidents, NATO
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